Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Dekker, Bram
Author-Email: bramjdekker@gmail.com
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT
Author-Name: Siegel, Melissa
Author-Email: siegel@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT
Title: Transnationalism and integration: Complements or Substitutes?
Abstract: This paper investigates the relationship between transnational practices 
	 and integration by testing whether they are substitutes or complements. 
	 For this purpose, we use a multidimensional transnationalism index. The 
	 index includes three dimensions of transnational practices, including 
	 migrants' economic, political, and socio-cultural transnational 
	 practices. These three dimensions and their aggregated index are then 
	 compared to both structural and socio-cultural integration. The analysis 
	 is based on data from 815 migrant households in the Netherlands, 
	 gathered among first generation migrants from Morocco, Burundi, Ethiopia 
	 and Afghanistan. Our results show that both structural and 
	 socio-cultural integration provides tentative support for the 
	 complementary typology. Lack of resources is significantly associated 
	 with transnationalism, but does not act as a moderator of the 
	 integration-transnationalism relationship. Among the four migrant groups 
	 studied in this paper, being multi-dimensionally transnational is 
	 associated with better structural and socio-cultural integration showing 
	 a complementary relationship. Implications for policy are discussed.
Classification-JEL: F22, Z1
Keywords: migration, transnational migrants, integration, the Netherlands, transnational
	 practices
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20131231
Number: 2013-071
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2013/wp2013-071.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2013071